Got what she wanted

This is what happens when you climb into a polar bear's zoo habitat during "feeding time":



Brilliant!

Last day of Feb.

And the Coen Brothers are hard at work...on a commercial, of all things.



Props to the bros.

Being an idiot

Haven't updated in over two months, also known as blog suicide. So let's make it up to cyberspace:


Dope.

Microsoft's newest rip-off!

The interactive music video games (Rock Band, Guitar Hero, etc.) are a big hit with kids and failed musicians all over the world, and that's great. But the world's greatest technological suitor couldn't go any longer without getting a piece of the actions, so they decided to employ their copycat skills and create a similar product with a much worse name. Zune ring a bell for anybody?

Their new game, a karaoke-style video game, includes over 40 songs already in its system, but it also has the capability to sync with iPods and Zunes so users can play their own music if they so desire. It's impossible to fail a song, and there are no harder difficulty levels. Everybody's a winner in "Lips"!

Besides the cover, which looks like the album art for an old N*SYNC album, the name is borderline pornographic. "Lips"? The reference is obvious, but do you even really use your lips to sing? Certainly they assist in vocal annunciation, but how can someone expect to be taken seriously when they're sitting around bored and ask friends, "So...er...you guys wanna play with my 'Lips'?"

Microsoft simply didn't think this one through. At least the microphones are sexy to look at and possibly hold. Hopefully, I never have the displeasure.

Britney's back...bitches

If you didn't already know, Britney Spears - the queen of Pop - has made a comeback. Yes, you could say that she already made a comeback last year with Blackout, which included the Danja-produced banger, "Gimme More." But that was for play-play. Her new album, Circus, is for real-reals.

"Womanizer" has already been spinning as much as Spreewells in South Beach, and from the looks of her latest video, "Circus," it doesn't look like Ms. Spears will be going back into hiding anytime soon.

Britney Spears - New Music - More Music Videos

Now Britney has blessed us with many great videos in the past. But nothing really compares to her latest. The lighting, the choreography, the camera work is all so circus-y and utterly fantastic.

And while many pop artists are employing the circus theme in their music concepts, Britney does it the best...and the sexiest.

She's got fucking lions in her video! Come on, now.

Brilliant...Day Without Gays December 10th

I often don't like Jack Black. I always love John C. Reilly. I ADORE this video.

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Gay is the new black, people. Get on board!

Return of the Sixties

Ok so the election is long over, but I went to the JFK library this week and found some interesting parallels.

Barack Obama and John Kennedy both were young, revolutionary democrats campaigning against the "establishment" - old people - that represented the republican party. Both commanded huge movements of progressive and enthusiastic youth in their respective periods. Both were extremely well spoken, and had the ability to excite millions merely with a speech.

The republican campaign in 2008 is interestingly reminiscent of its 1960 counterpart. Check the tagline:


Now I'm not saying this parallel really applies to John McCain - lord knows he probably doesn't have the energy to run again, cheat, and win - but its funny how well history has repeated itself.

Of course, for the dichotomy to be complete, Mr. Obama will have to take a fatal ride in a Lincoln somewhere. I don't know how likely that is, but if you listen into the crevices of political gossip, I'm sure there are plenty of conspiracy assasination predictions. Who knows? Racism is certainly not dead in this country despite the leaps and bounds our society has made since the turn of the millenia.

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

On the other hand, some Bostonians think Mr. Obama might better represent the potential for totalitarian regime (talk about the crevices of gossip).

"Heil!"

Nickelodeon throwback

I got really emotional when I revisited "The Secret World of Alex Mack" yesterday.



I was so inspired that I decided to do my final project for the semester on this show.

By the way, to the right is a picture of what Larisa Oleynik, the girl who played Alex Mack, looks like now.

And the show is definitely worth checking out, even just for nostalgic purposes. Several of them are on YouTube, and they are DELIcious.

Just another mash-up

Jay-Z and Coldplay teamed up for the Terry Urban/Mick Boogie mixtape cleverly titled, Viva La Hova.

Hova is not new to the mixtape mash-ups. DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album - a combination of Jay-Z's vocals from The Black Album and rearranged instrumentals from The Beatles' White Album - was welcomed with critical acclaim from The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and The Village Voice.

But this mixtape is less innovative, and includes some of Jay's most popular flows on top of mostly unaltered Coldplay instrumentals.

And on top of it all, it looks like the cover's creator spent all of about 10 minutes on it.

But check their MySpace page HERE to form your own opinion.

You Learn Something New Everyday

A Jew offered me some of her pomegranate today. As she picked out the seeds, she gave me a mini-history of the pomegranate.

Apparently, they grow in places like Israel...no surprise; Israel is pretty warm. That makes sense.

They also apparently represent fertility in Judaism, which makes sense too; there are a ton of seeds (eggs) in those things, just like a woman's ovaries...no surprise there either.

But apparently, every pomegranate has exactly 613 seeds in it. Now this is suspicious, because there are 613 commandments. Coincidence? I think so.

There is no way that every pomegranate has exactly 613 seeds in it. That's just ridiculous.

So while you carry out your "important" affairs of the day, I will be counting pomegranate seeds, proving this silly myth's nonsense.

to be continued...